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Re:The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:56PM (#50347009)
What a bad idea “let’s further empower a fickle federal gov to dictate the lives of citizens”

Oh but sure it’s for a good cause

Genuinely surprised they didn’t ask us to “think of the children”

Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:16AM (#50326446)
Misleading phrasing of the point, maybe “electrification could double energy efficiency”
ChatGPT isn’t 4 years old yet, give it a minute
Idk I expect being beholden to shareholders and the market will impose some level of rationality here
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:49PM (#50263926)
“The ads will get so good you won’t realize they’re ads and you’ll end up buying all this stuff without awareness of why you’re doing it”

Do you actually think this is going to happen *to you* or are you just speculating about all the idiot dupes out there?

Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:13PM (#50263400)
Every ad since the dawn of time was designed to influence your purchasing decisions
Exactly, quality thinking can apply to any level of expertise on any topic. You can be a complete novice and still have an interesting conversation
It’s a conversation point off which a discussion can be had
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:33PM (#50237961)
So can we stop panicking about money in elections or
Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @05:19PM (#50236158)
Cingular, technically
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:32PM (#50227716)
“Late”

ChatGPT isn’t 4yo yet. We’re just getting started

Re:Speeding up code review with `small-change` on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:28AM (#50204513)
Scalability matters
Re:Speeding up code review with `small-change` on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:45PM (#50202678)
A flipped bool is a single line change, or even just a single character change, and yet fundamentally changes everything about the program outcome

I do not think this is a good metric

Re:ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:31PM (#50091516)
Need to rollback the entire post-9/11 security mentality.
Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:46PM (#50074712)
Apple was already shipping USB-C devices before the EU got involved

Thank god the EU didn’t get it’s shit together before usb-c, the original proposal was to require microUSB lol

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:44PM (#50074672)
Yeah Apple does it right. It’s why I was desperate for them to get Siri AI out: people are going to use these services and if Apple’s privacy-focused version isn’t ready, people will use unsafe and untrustworthy vendors instead
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:32PM (#50074454)
Connecting AirPods to an Apple TV is literally one-button tap
Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:40PM (#50058994)
This comment seems fairly ahistorical, large corporations are successfully sued all the time
Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:34AM (#50057931)
I’d call it impossible if they weren’t already (mostly) doing it
Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:52PM (#49971383)
I was happily using Apple in the 90s before everyone came on board

Stock price aside, I’ll be happy using them when everyone moves on

Re:Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D Scan Verdict on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:11PM (#49949584)
What is a spatial index
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:49AM (#49878907)
Yeah no one wrote buggy code before 2024 right
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:36PM (#49790500)
Are there good tools for doing context audits? I feel I have no good way to visualize what a new session is getting by default in a given repo without crawling through every potentially included markdown file
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:31PM (#49715013)
For now?
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:31PM (#49715006)
Not to mention it’s built on top of Apple’s other private UI frameworks
Yes. I sympathize with the “every PR needs human eyes on it” ethos but fundamentally the only thing that scales with AI PR generation is AI PR review.
Re:The AI job market in 2026 on Monday September 14, 2026 @11:56AM (#49699068)
Go long the market
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:19PM (#49685662)
A new era of native macOS apps is upon us.

GUIs abound. Rejoice!

Re:Apple wants to train AI on your private personal data on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:34PM (#49679029)
Title seems misleading if not outright wrong, having read the article.
Coding != software development

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